Gnome Warlord with Avatar's Symbol and Gnome Bloodmage with Burning Heart. Worship JJ for mana boost and WEYTWUT, scum for LEMMISI. I got both my Warlord and Bloodmage runs on Dragon Isles first try. With my Jehora/Mystera pantheon, it's actually easier than with the Berserker, which I've already made two unsuccessful attempts on with a Trilling.

Gorgon wrote:I don't think killing 5 lvl 10 Animated Armors with 2x The Indomitable's attack damage and then having to kill 5 Resist-down slimes is easier than Halls of Steel...

A bit of a paradox there, I know, but once you learn how to do it, the "algorythm" sort of lend's itself well to everything else you're doing in the dungeon or is not detracting from it much. Plus, you get way more exploration, leveling and you don't have to waste much time looking for glyphs and shops. And there's a conversion stone in there. Plus, a spellcaster has no real problem with the goos, and a resistance/knockback fighter has a much easier time with the AA's if you know what you're doing. And there's a bunch of ways you can build into an efficent hybrid.

Plus, the bandit floor is a much bigger obstacle than the goo floor, these days

Halls of steel, on the other hand, is cramped in every possible way, and gives waaay less resources while expecting you to deal with the indomitable (who is an AA floor all by himself) and blah-blah who is a damage sponge which you can't figt unless you've explored and deprived yourself of resources. So for me, it kind of IS harder than Gaan'Telet.

Ok, that was a huge oversight by the devs. Utilizing mage abilites like pisorff was the only ways to even beat indomitable, now they nerf myst, but don't nerf the hardest dungeon. Hopefully next update we'll see some VHoS changes.

Finally got three. Good lord. I'm not very good at this game, so it's doable, but I had to get pretty lucky.

Monk and wizard were the relatively obvious first two, last one I managed to get a JJ dwarf sorcerer through (burning heart, smuggler's den, scout player, ATK for MANA, 50 gold, bear mace, elite items, WHUPAZ, reflex, quicksilver, translocation seal). I made some mistakes, too (accidentally bought a health potion from the shop instead of schadenfreude was the big one). Finding The Indomitable and BLUDTOPOWA early meant I could load him up with 30 burning before I even started leveling up.